I mean, I think most of us understand why GOG's Linux support is miles behind Steam's, but that doesn't change the fact that it is behind. Years ago I bought several games from GOG because of the no DRM policy; but once Steam released a Linux version, and began pumping resources into Proton, the choice for me was easy, and I switched over. I understand GOG's position, but I don't think there's anything wrong with people pointing out how GOG doesn't have the same level of Linux support as Steam does. That's useful information.
cspiegel
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The Messenger. I saw a post here a bit ago about Sabotage's upcoming "Sea of Stars" which looked interesting, and I saw they'd also done a Ninja Gaiden-inspired game several years back, so I picked it up.
I'm a couple hours in, and I've been really enjoying it. It has a very NES-like feel, while still being a smooth experience, i.e. not held back by the limitations of the NES, just inspired by it. Apparently it kicks into an SNES-style experience later on, so that'll be fun to see.
I'm not sure how enjoyable it'd be to somebody who didn't grow up on the NES, but I've had fun with it so far.
Slackware 3.0, so must have been late 1995 to early/mid 1996. It was included with the book Linux Unleashed, I believe.
I recall having to rebuild the kernel to get sound drivers working (voxware, if I recall). I can't remember if they were included with the kernel, or if I had to patch it. I followed the directions in the book, presumably including updating LILO, and it actually worked. I think that if I broke the kernel, there's a good chance I'd've given up on Linux at that point, so good thing it worked first try!
Anchorhead will always rank very high for me. I played through the Z-machine version, and while I've purchased the Glulx version, I haven't played through it yet. I hope to soon, though. The game has great atmosphere.
I've always quite enjoyed Shade as well.
On a somewhat related note, I've found that Paul O'Brian's reviews of IF Comp games over the years are uniformly excellent, and may help find some new favorites. He tailed off from reviews a while back, but now has a new site called Inventory which is dedicated to IF as well, and worth taking a look at. He's copying over his older comp reviews as well as collecting various others he's done.
Go to the /sub path on the server, e.g. https://kbin.social/sub.
To avoid having to type that in each time, you can enable a top-bar that has a link to "Subscribed", among others: click the gear on the right, and next to "Show top bar", select "Yes".
Maybe there's an easier way to manage this, but I haven't found it.
I tend to vacillate between Konversation and Quassel, although I'm not on IRC anywhere as near as often as I used to be.
Just for fun, I sometimes still fire up BitchX, which I used to have running 24/7, fullscreen, in a dedicated virtual desktop, to feel like the good old DOS days. Given that the latest release was in 2014 (and the last Git commit was in 2019), it's probably not a great idea to use it, though.